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Ceola Tunstall-Behrens (1989) has a researched-based practice. She primarily focuses on personal memories, seeking to both record and reconstruct them through the use of the voice. To this end, she works with installations, performance and artificial voices. The artist also collaborates with others, such as in her collective TiSiTi, which develops performances that bring together space, body and voice. By engaging with intangible subject matter, Tunstall-Behrens explores both the enduring and the lost aspects that reside within an individual.
For her work at Prospects, Tunstall-Behrens presents a different path, turning her attention to lino printing. This classic relief-printing technique is a new medium within her practice, yet it connects seamlessly with her earlier research. For the artist, the act of cutting away functions as an analogy for the processes of preservation and reconstruction. The spatial balance that emerges in the relief is abstract and remains open to interpretation by the viewer.
Tunstall-Behrens developed her lino printing technique during a residency in Cornwall (England). ‘I spent a lot of time alone there. The environment was surrounded by nature: I was guided by an intuitive energy that resulted in linos with a calm, natural quality.’ In collaboration with a local picture framer, the artist designed frames that form an integral part of the work: they establish a playful relationship and shape how the lino prints are perceived. Tunstall-Behrens invites audiences to view the works up close and from multiple angles, as each lino – like the individual – contains several perspectives.
Written by Kelly-ann van Steveninck